The school, requested by the Muslim Executive in Belgium, will be run by a mufti, an Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law.

The mufti will not be allowed to issue any fatwas - which would normally be one of his privileges - because such decrees would violate Belgian law, the government said.

A similar structure exists in France, the Expatica news service reports.

A Belgian professor will give civic training in both French and Dutch, and 15 trainers from Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt will give training in Arabic, Turkish, and Urdu, the national language of Pakistan.

The school will be subsidized by the Belgian government, which seeks to control the foreign financing of Belgian mosques to reduce outside ideological influences on Belgian imams.

Güncelleme Tarihi: 20 Eylül 2018, 18:16